removing quotation marks from old import

[teacher24_70]

At one point, when I first started using Bookpedia, I imported a tab-delimited file from Word. When it imported the authors, it placed the author names in quotation marks. So, when I sort by author, all of the quotation marked authors are listed first.

Is there a quick, easy way to remove these quotation marks or will I need to do them manually one at a time?

[Conor]

I wouldn't say easy, but there is a way (possibly two).

Without Bookpedia running, make a backup copy of the info.xml file located in the data folder (~/Library/Application Support/Bookpedia) and then open the original info.xml file in a text editor that can handle regular expressions such as TextWrangler with "Use Grep" checked in the find panel.

Look for:

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<key>Author</key>\r\t\t\t<string>"(.*)"</string>

replace with:

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<key>Author</key>\r\t\t\t<string>\1</string>